Originally Posted by
DCAproducer
So a few things, 1) how many available F seats and how many available C+ gates were there at the gate? 2) When the F upgrades clear, that likely opened a few C+ seats. If other people on the upgrade list boarded ahead of you, that drops them off the upgrade list. If you boarded in Main 1, it is conceivable that you moved up the list enough to take an available C+ upgrade.
Were you on an MD90, C series or 717? Many medallions won’t take the middle seat C+ upgrade.
(sorry, saw STL, not a C Series destination)
The gate agent may have also needed your seat to put a family together and moved you up.
Thank you for this explanation as I think this is a plausible scenario. I was one of the first few to board in the Main 1 group; FO don't get SKY status. I have seen numerous times before where folks scan their boarding pass and out pops a new seating assignment, it just has never happened to me until last week. There was only a few FC and C+ available for upgrades at the gate.
It was an MD88 so 10D the first aisle C+ seat (a great seat tbh).
However, I would think the C+ ticket would have popped out for people in the SKY boarding zone as they would presumably have been ahead of me on the upgrade list?